浙江省强基联盟2023届高三上学期10月联考英语试题.doc

2022学年第一学期浙江强基联盟10月统测高三年级
英语试题
第一部分听力（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有5秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1.What happened to the man?
A.He's injured. B.He's tired. C.He's lost.
2.What does the woman want to grow in her garden?
A.Herbs. B.Flowers. C.Vegetables.
3.How does the woman sound?
A.Angry. B.Pleased. C.Unconfident.
4.What is the woman going to do on Sunday?
A.Get a haircut. B.Work in the office. C.Climb the mountains.
5.When will the test begin today?
A.At 9:30 a.m. B.At10:00a.m. C.At 10:30 a.m.
第二节：（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题。听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6.What is the man probably trying to do?
A.Open a new bank account.
B.Exchange some money.
C.Withdraw money from his account.
7.What is the man's main problem?
A.He doesn't have any money.
B.He forgot his bank account number.
C.His bank isn't available in New York.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8.Where are the speakers probably?
A.In a gym. B.On a street. C.In the man's office.
9.What is the man's wish?
A.To improve his health condition.
B.To make friends in the gym.
C.To join in a competition.
10.What kind of deal will the man probably take?
A.A discounted monthly membership.
B.A free weightlifting class.
C.A free one-time visit.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11.What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A.Car salesman and customer.
B.Car mechanic and client.
C.Car collector and visitor.
12.What is probably wrong with the woman's car according to the man?
A.It is too old.
B.It was hit in an accident.
C.It has an issue with its engine.
13.How much will the man probably offer to get the previous car?
A.$10,000. B.$35,000. C.$45,000.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14.In which country are the speakers?
A.Russia. B.Mongolia. C.China.
15.What does the man probably do for a living?
A.A miner. B.A land surveyor. C. A teacher.
16.Why is the woman's English good?
A.Because she teaches English part-time.
B.Because she has read many English novels.
C.Because one of her parents is a native English speaker.
17.What do we know about the coldest capital city in the world?
A.It is beautiful in winter.
B.It's a city with a unique history.
C.Its heating is powered by electricity.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18.Which grade will the students enter next year?
A.The 9th grade in high school.
B.The 10th grade in high school.
C.The first year in university.
19.Why is the speaker giving the lesson?
A.To introduce the current school year.
B.To prepare for the upcoming final exam.
C.To celebrate the end of the school year.
20.What will the students do last?
A.Watch a movie.
B.Make a group presentation.
C.Practice the greetings in pairs.
第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Urban gardens are valuable assets to communities. They provide green spaces to grow sustainable food, build community cohesion (凝聚力)，make new friends, connect with the earth, and much more. So, let's check out our list of 4 inspiring urban gardens in the US.
Gotham Greens

Where: New York &Chicago
What: Gotham Greens first started in Brooklyn and now has four locations in New York City and Chicago. Their flagship farm in Brooklyn produces over 100,000 pounds of greens per year. But it doesn't just produce healthy local vegetables. It is using high-tech greenhouses with solar panels to make sure the food grown is healthy and sustainable.
Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students
Where: Baltimore, Maryland
What:The Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students (BUGS) program encourages students to get their hands dirty and plant vegetables through their after-school and summer programs. Many of these kids don't have access to green spaces, and have never had the opportunity to grow food.
ReVision Urban Farm
Where: Boston,Massachusetts
What: ReVision Urban Farm in Boston works in partnership with the ReVision Family Home-a shelter for 22 homeless parents and their kids. The farm provides these families with information on healthy eating, and access to the farm’s fresh vegetables. The organization also provides job training to help families escape the cycle of poverty.
Swale
Where: New York
What: Swale, a floating food forest located on a large boat, is an innovative project meant to inspire citizens to rethink the relationship between our cities and our food. This urban garden serves as both a living art exhibit and an educational farm. Food forests are sustainable gardens that include vegetables, fruit, nut trees, bushes, herbs, and vines -each one complementing the other in a symbiotic (共生的) relationship.
21.What does the BUGS program mainly do?
A.Provide job training for students.
B.Use high-tech greenhouses to grow healthy food.
C.Create a sustainable garden on a large boat.
D.Offer students the opportunity to grow vegetables.
22.Which urban garden helps people get out of poverty?
A.Gotham Greens. B.Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students.
C.ReVision Urban Farm. D.Swale.
23.Where can citizens go to see a food forest?
A.Chicago. B.Baltimore. C.Boston. D.New York.
B
Like many other five-year-old, Jeanie Low of Houston, Texas, would use a stool (凳子) to help her reach the bathroom sink. However, the plastic step-stool she had at home was unstable and cluttered up the small bathroom shared by her whole family. After learning of an invention contest held by her school that year, Jeanie resolved to enter the contest by creating a stool that would be a permanent fixture in the bathroom, and yet could be kept out of the way when not in use.
Jeanie decided to make a stool attached to the bathroom cabinet door under the sink. She cut a board of wood into two pieces, each about two feet wide and one foot long. Using metal hinges (铰链)Jeanie attached one piece of the wood to the front of the cabinet door, and the

second piece to the first. The first piece was set just high enough so that when it swung out horizontally from the cabinet door, the second piece would swing down from the first, just touching the ground, and so serving as a support for the first piece of the wood. This created a convenient, strong platform for any person too short to reach the sink. When not in use, the hinges allowed the two pieces of wood to fold back up tightly against the cabinet, where they were held in place by magnets. Jeanie called her invention the “Kiddie Stool”.
Jeanie's Kiddie Stool won first place in her school's contest. Two years later, it was awarded first prize again at Houston's first annual Invention Fair. As a result, Jeanie was invited to make a number of public appearances with her Kiddie Stool, and was featured on local TV as well as in newspapers. Many people found the story of the Kiddie Stool inspiring because it showed that with imagination, anyone can be an inventor.
24.Why did Jeanie Low invent the Kiddie Stool, according to the passage?
A.Many other five-year-olds had problems reaching the bathroom sink.
B.She did not think that plastic stools were tall enough for her.
C.The stool in her bathroom was not firm and often got in the way.
D.She was invited to enter an invention contest held by her school.
25.Which of the following statements is true about how the Kiddie Stool works?
A.The Kiddie Stool will swing out only when the cabinet door opens.
B.It uses hinges and magnets to keep the wooden pieces in place.
C.It swings from left to right to be attached to the cabinet door.
D.The platform is supported by two pieces of metal.
26.What are the characteristics of Jeanie's Kiddie Stool?
A.Permanent and foldable. B.Fragile and disposable.
C.Conventional and portable. D.Convenient and recyclable.
27.Which of the following sayings best captures the spirit of Jeanie Low's story?
A.Failure is the mother of success.
B.Necessity is the mother of invention.
C.Genius is 1% inspiration and 99%perspiration.
D.Invention requires both disciplines and wild imagination.
C
In Japan, you are what your blood type is. A person's blood type is popularly believed to decide his/her character and personality. Type-A people are generally considered sensitive perfectionists and good team players, but over-anxious. Type OS are curious and generous but stubborn. Type ABs are artistic but mysterious and unpredictable, and type Bs are cheerful but eccentric, individualistic, and selfish. Though lacking scientific evidence, this belief is widely seen in books, magazines, and television shows. Last year, four of Japan's top 10 best-sellers were about how blood type determines personality, through which readers seemed to be able to discover the definition of their blood type or have their self-image confirmed.
The blood-type belief has been used in unusual ways. The women softball team that won gold for Japan at the Beijing Olympics is reported to have used blood-type theories to customize training for each player. Some kindergartens have adopted teaching methods along blood group lines, and even major companies reportedly make decisions about assignments based on an employee's blood type. In 1990, Mitsubishi Electronics was reported to have announced the formation of a team composed entirely of AB workers, thanks to “their ability to make plans".

The belief even affects politics. One former prime minister considered it important enough to reveal in his official profile that he was a type A, while his opposition rival was type B. In 2011, a minister, Ryu Matsumoto, was forced to resign after only a week in office, when a bad-tempered encounter with local officials was televised. In his resignation speech, he blamed his failings on the fact that he was blood type B.
The blood-type craze, considered simply harmless fun by some Japanese, may reveal itself as prejudice and discrimination. In fact, this seems so common that the Japanese now have a term for it: bura-hara, meaning blood-type harassment (骚扰). There are reports of discrimination leading to children being bullied, ending of happy relationships, and loss of job opportunities due to blood type.
28.What's the main idea of paragraph 1?
A.The Japanese attach great importance to blood type.
B.The books about blood type are popular in Japan.
C.The Japanese confirm their personality totally through blood type.
D.The Japanese think blood type bestsellers are important to their self-image.
29.According to the passage,which blood type can we infer is the LEAST favored in Japan?
A.Type A. B.Type B. C.Type O. D.Type AB.
30.Prime Minister Ryu Matsumoto resigned from office because.
A.he revealed his rival's blood type
B.he was seen behaving rudely on TV
C.he blamed his failings on local officials
D.he was discriminated against because of blood type
31.What is the speaker's attitude toward the blood-type belief in Japan?
A.Negative. B.Defensive. C.Objective. D.Encouraging.
D
You've most likely heard the news by now: A car-commuting, desk-bound, TV-watching lifestyle can be harmful to our health. All the time that we spend rooted in the chair is linked to increased risks of so many deadly diseases that experts have named this modern-day health epidemic the“sitting disease".
Sitting for too long slows down the body's metabolism (新陈代谢) and the way enzymes (酶) break down our fat reserves, raising both blood sugar levels and blood pressure. Small amounts of regular activity, even just standing and moving around, throughout the day is enough to bring the increased levels back down. And those small amounts of activity add up -30 minutes of light activity in two or three-minute bursts can be just as effective as a half-hour block of exercise. But without that activity, blood sugar levels and blood pressure keep creeping up, steadily damaging the inside of the arteries (动脉) and increasing the risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and other serious diseases. In essence, fundamental changes in biology occur if you sit for too long.
But wait, you're a runner.You needn't worry about the harm of a sedentary lifestyle because you exercise regularly, right? Well, not so fast. Recent studies show that people spend an average of 64 hours a week sitting, whether or not they exercise 150 minutes a week as recommended by World Health Organization (WHO). Regular exercisers, furthermore, are found to be about 30 percent less active on days when they exercise. Overall, most people simply aren't exercising or moving around enough to counteract all the harm that can result from sitting nine hours or more a day.

Scared straight out of your chair? Good. The remedy is as simple as standing up and taking activity breaks.
32.What is the best way to bring down high blood sugar level and blood pressure?
A.Exercising for 150 minutes or more every week.
B.Getting rid of the habit of car commuting and TV watching.
C.Interrupting sitting time with light activity as often as possible.
D.Standing or moving around for at least two or three minutes every day.
33.What does the word “sedentary” in the third paragraph most likely meant?
A.Modern. B.Risky. C.Inactive. D.Epidemic.
34.Which of the following may be inferred about those who do serious exercise?
A.They usually do not meet the standard of exercise recommended by WHO.
B.They generally spend less time sitting than those who are inactive.
C.They often live longer than those who don't exercise.
D.They tend to stand or move around less on their work-out days.
35.What is the passage mainly about?
A.The challenges of the modern lifestyle.
B.The reasons for the spread of a modern epidemic.
C.The effect of regular exercise on our body.
D.The threat to our health from long hours of sitting.
第二节：（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
From the dawn of civilization, paper records have been a method of keeping track of important and necessary documentation. A common experience throughout the world's record keeping has been the necessity to ensure that all documents are kept together, and none are lost.
__36__ These included tying ribbons through the paper, and melting wax to secure the papers in place. For nearly 600 years, these were the methods used to secure papers.
__37__ In 1835, a machine that could mass-produce straight pins was invented by Howe J.I, an American inventor. Although straight pins (大头针) were originally designed for sewing and tailoring, people began using them as a quick and easy way to secure papers. __38__ In 1899 he patented the device, which consisted of a wire bent into a particularly shaped hoop for the purpose of securing papers.
During this time, however, the paperclip (回形针) was not a widely distributed device. Therefore, the Gem Manufacturing Company of